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As soon as she finished speaking, before Jiang Xia and Conan could answer, a weathered laugh suddenly came from the side.
Someone naturally joined Haibara Ai's conversation:
"Ha ha, they are indeed a little abnormal, but they probably don't have the guts to kill anyone. Kids, why don't you look around for other suspicious people? Maybe some murderer killed someone nearby, then dumped the body in our restaurant to divert the police's attention."
Jiang Xia paused and turned toward the voice.
The person who had spoken was the old woman playing Young Master's hometown grandmother, Grandma Kiyo. Grandma Kiyo was hunched over, with completely white hair, and looked very old... No wonder she counted him among the "kids."
Although Conan was about the same age as Jiang Xia, he had long grown used to being addressed like a child.
He looked at Grandma Kiyo. "I heard you don't like Laoyang either?"
"That's right. When he curses people, he's vicious. Words like 'idiot,' 'moron,' and 'good-for-nothing' roll right off his tongue. He doesn't go easy even on a slow old woman like me."
Grandma Kiyo took a long drag from her cigarette, then slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke. "None of us workers like Laoyang at all. The store manager used to be close with him, but after they became romantic rivals over Madonna, they barely interacted anymore... If I hadn't been so extravagant in the past and failed to save any money, hmph, I wouldn't have come here to work and put up with this."
"However, now that I mention it..."
Grandma Kiyo suddenly smiled, the wrinkles on her face folding over one another.
She looked at Madonna, who was mopping nearby. "Luckily, you happened to stay over at my house last night. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had that